Public Value Co-Creation: A Multi-Actor & Multi-Sector Perspective addresses a fundamental gap in the scholarly field of Public Management relating to the advice and strategies available on what public managers can and/or should do to co-create public value.
Alessandro Sancino offers a timely and unique approach providing a map with the main actors and their relative domains (public organization; inter-organizational; civic/community) to help guide the strategic thinking of a public manager for designing and leading processes of public value co-creation. The book discusses the concept of public value co-creation from a multi-actor and multi-sector perspective as an opportunity for transforming the public sector, for transitioning business models towards sustainable development and for rejuvenating democracy.
Public Value Co-Creation: A Multi-Actor & Multi-Sector Perspective is a great aid to researchers and practitioners committed to achieve public value.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. From Public Value to Public Value Co-Creation
Chapter 3. Reconnecting State and Society through Public Value and Civicness
Chapter 4. Understanding Public Value Co-Creation from A Place Perspective
Chapter 5. Designing and Leading Processes of Public Value Co-Creation: Domains and Actors
Chapter 6. Concluding Remarks
About the Author :
Alessandro Sancino is Associate Professor at The Open University, UK, and at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. He has published in top journals across the fields of public administration, management & organization studies, urban and regional studies. He has governance roles in several academic societies and has held public leadership roles in Italy at both national and local levels. In 2021 he has been awarded as one of the Best 40 Professors under 40 years old in the world teaching in a Business School.
Review :
Alessandro Sancino’s new book offers thought-provoking discussions on several key concepts in public management, especially on public value and the actors involved in creating it.
Alessandro Sancino’s book is a remarkable and much-needed synthesis of the multiple literatures related to public value co-creation. For those of us trying to find our way in this field that is crucial for the future of liberal democracies, the book is an invaluable guide to navigation for purposes of research, teaching, and service.
This book is a valuable contribution to the new literature on co-created public value creation for two reasons. First, it moves beyond the narrow perspective of public values as something that the public sector produces alone or by occasionally involving private actors by pointing out that public value is produced in all corners of society and that a public sector that aims to mobilize society and enabling place-based co-creation stand much better chance of contributing a strong and well-functioning society. Second, the book offers much needed guidance for public managers who aspire to take on this task.
